Roofing



(No model.)

' N. U. WALKER.

7 Roofing; 5 No. 235,595. Patented Dec.'14, 18 80 asses v I 1 I 5, TlVEIl [1H W M D v I; 0% 6 m M A w w N.FE|'ER6 PHOTU-UINOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D.C.

NITED STATES PATENT tribe.

NATHAN U. WALKER, OF WELLSVILLE, OHIO.

ROOFING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 235,595, dated December 14, 1880.

Application filed November 4, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN U. WALKER, of Wellsville, in the county of Columbiana and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Roofing; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of my improvement in covering for roof. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same as applied to roof. Fig. 3 is a modified form of the device shown in Fig. Like letters refer to like parts wherever they occur.

The object of my invention is to furnish a cheap roof for houses and barns, and for other coverings; and it consists of a web or hurdle composed of strips of wood and wire or other flexible material, the spaces between which are to be filled with any water-proof substance. I will now describe my invention, so that others skilled in the art may manufacture and use the same.

In the drawings, (t represents wooden strips of any shapesquare, round, or octagonal V placed parallel to each other, and about the width of one of the strips apart, although they may be arranged at any distance from each other that is found most convenient.

Passing over and under the strips to are wires 6, extending parallel to each other at right angles to the strips a, the first Wire passing over the first strip of wood, under the second, and over the third, and so on. The next wire passes under the first strip of wood, over the second, and under the third, and so on,

while the third wire is arranged as the first, and so on until a fabric of wood and wire is constructed of the desired size.

Although the described method of weaving the wire and strips of wood together may be used, still I do not intend to limit myself to the same, as the wire may be woven or fastened to the strips, so as to form a strong flexible fabric in various other ways-as, for instance, the method shown in Fig. 3, where each wire is wound around each strip of wood.

Instead of the wires 1), hemp. twine, or any other strong flexible material may be used.

This fabric or hurdle roofing may be woven in pieces of any size; but, preferably,it should bewoven in long pieces about three or four feet wide, the wooden strips extending laterally and the wires longitudinally. It can then be rolled into bundles and strips of the desired size; can be cutoff to fit the roof of the buildin g to be covered. These strips are fastened side by side on the root'byany suitable means, as by wires or nails, until the roof is covered. The interstices between the strips and the wires are then filled with any suitable waterproof substance-such as pulp, glue, coal-tar, asphaltum, tar bagasse; or, in case of roofs, they may be filled with gravel and pitch or tar. The filling of water-proof material may, however, be laid on the wood and wire before it is placed on the root and the same used for awnings, shed-roofing, and for portable and other coverings.

For some purposes the web may be used Without the water-proof filling; but in this case the strips of wood are placed close together and arranged so as to overlap each other, and thereby shed the water.

The advantages of my invention are, that a cheap and efficient roofing is formed, which will not easily decay. It may be used as a portable covering. In the case of roofing for buildings where pitch and tar are used, it prevents the same from running down the roof when melted by the heat of the sun.

Havingthus described'my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isp 7 1. A roofing consisting of strips of wood and a flexible material woven together, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A covering or roofing consisting of a web of wood and flexible material having the interstices bet-ween the same filled with a waterproof substance, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

NATHAN U. WALKER.

Witnesses:

JAMES H. PORIE, J. K. SMITH. 

